Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji JapanRoutledge, 2007 M11 9 - 224 páginas In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice. Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government’s guiding principle was not simply economic development or providing a technical model for private industry as is commonly claimed. Choice of technique was based on the ability of a technological artifact to import Western "civilization" to Japan: Meiji officials’ technological choices were firmly situated within perceptions of authority, modernity, and their varying political agendas. Technological artifacts could also be used as instruments of political legitimization. By late the Meiji Era, the former icons of Western civilization had been transformed into the symbols of Japanese industrial and military might. A fresh and engaging re-examination of Japanese industrialization within the larger framework of the Meiji Era, this book will appeal to scholars and students of science, technology, and society as well as Japanese history and culture. |
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... Modern Japan Nationalism as aesthetics Yumiko Iida 4 The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society , 1931-33 Sandra Wilson 5 Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee Rapid industrialization , 1961-1979 Hyung - A Kim 6 Japan and National ...
... modern industry. Tomioka's stated purpose was to disseminate the latest Western-style silk reeling technologies to the people. Private producers and merchants would come to the factory to learn and study the new technologies; women ...
... modern technologies could not be universally applied without problems. After nearly two decades, intellectual technology matched experience and the government's 'universal' technology became fully practicable. Although the historical ...
... modern' materials – their progress ideology. Iron machines and brick buildings were 'modern' and permanent, they were demonstrative of 'civilization' and one's status. Although a reasonable choice of technique if one is trying to import ...
... modern Tokyo. Accompanying government pronouncements about improving the quality of Japan's raw silk through the adoption of European machines and techniques, 23 or the necessity of building an ironworks to provide for all of Japan's ...
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